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Bucks center Larry Sanders will be sidelined through the All-Star break after suffering a fractured eye socket during a loss to the Rockets on Saturday.

Sanders was unavailable when Milwaukee faced Boston on Monday and he will miss his team's game against New Orleans on Wednesday. Officially, Sanders is listed as out indefinitely with an orbital bone fracture.

"That's really unfortunate because the kid has been playing well," Drew said, according to Fox Sports Wisconsin. "He was starting to play with a rhythm and played two of his better games this year. It's just real unfortunate that he sustained the injury."

The injury occurred with a little less than eight minutes remaining in the first quarter of Houston's 101-95 victory on Saturday. Sanders took a left elbow to the face from James Harden as the two players battled for a rebound. The fourth-year center crumbled straight to the court and was subbed out at the next dead ball. He did not return, finishing with two points (on 1-for-3 shooting) and four rebounds in four minutes.

"Sorry I couldn't come back out last night Bucks fans," Sanders wrote on Instagram, alongside the following picture which shows his badly bruised face. "I really appreciate everyone's support at the game. Hope to be back soon!"

Larry Sanders took an elbow to the face. (Larry Sanders on Instagram)

Sanders, 25, is averaging 7.7 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in 23 appearances this season. He missed nearly all of November and December after tearing a ligament in his thumb during a late-night fight at a nightclub. That injury that required surgery.

Shortly after word of his beef with Drew broke, Sanders was involved in a late-night nightclub incident which left him with a torn ligament in his thumb. Sanders was later cited by police for his role in the incident, which allegedly involved throwing champagne bottles, and previous animal cruelty charges against Sanders also came to light.

Milwaukee entered Monday's action with a league-worst 9-41 record. Sanders' defensive rating of 104.7 is among the Bucks' best, but he hasn't yet reclaimed his form from last season, when he ranked second in the league in blocks per game and placed seventh in the 2013 Defensive Player of the Year voting.